Joseph steubel



UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

JOSEPH STLRUBEL, OF NENV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY KONOLD, OF SAME PLACE.

CASK OR HOGSHEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,527, dated June 1'7, 1884.

Application filed November 26, 1883.

To (all whom may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosErn Srniinnn, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casks or Hogsheads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Likelctters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Figure 1. is a view of the exterior of a cask. Such cask has the same appearance exteriorly whether it be made after the old fashion or in accordance with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a view showing the inside of the head of a cask constructed after the old fashion. Fig. 20 3 is a view of the cask represented in Fig. 2

cut in vertical' cross-section on the line as Fig. lis a view of the inside of thehead of a cask constructed in accordance with my iniprovcment. Fig. 5 is a view of the caskhead represented in Fig. 4-, cut in vertical crossscction on the line 3 3 Fig. 6 is a plan view of the inside of the lower half of the cask devcloped from Fig. 1,- to show the groove and a section of one of the staves on the line 00 m.

Large casks have been heretofore made with a. manhole in one end, as represented in Figs. 1, 2, and After the inside has become foul or unclean, the button a is detached from the man-head b, it being bolted thereto, and the manhole is opened by knocking the man-head inward. In order to remove this man-head in this manner, the hoops at the top of the cask have to be loosened, when the man-head can be driven inward with the blows of a mallet. After the cask is cleaned, it is a task of considerable difficulty to replace the man-head, and the remaining part of the head of the cask is always badly damaged in the operation. One or two repetitions of this process always make it necessary to rehcad the barrel at a great expense. The man-head is replaced in its seat from the inside of the cask, and in hammerinupon the remaining portion of the Modem 1 head, inorder to induce the man-head to rise to place, the beveled periphery of the head is injured, as well as the corresponding groove in the inside of the barrel, which receives that beveled periphery. Moreover, when the hoops which were loosened are driven back to place, the sides of the man-holeare driven together, creating an additional diiificulty in reinstating the inairhead in its place. My in1- proveincnt is intended to cure these diffiouh tics, and this is done as follows: The head 0 is not beveled at that portion of its periphery 6o cl which is in the neighborhood of the man-hole, but is left at this part (I of the periphery of substantially the saine thickness that it is in its central part. This construction is illustrated in Figs. at and 5, where the head is shown bev- 6 5 eled around a portion of the barrel 1 but from c on both sides to the inan-hole it is not thus 4 beveled. Of course the groove in the interior of the barrel which receives this head is cor-re spondingly shaped, andin order to prevent the sides (1 of the man-hole from being crowded together when the hoops are replaced or rati fied, as hereinbefore mentioned, the groove stops at the points 0 c", forming the shoulders against which the sides of the man-hole bear, opposing any tendency of the sides o'f. the man-hole to approach each other. There is a slight beveled groove, (1, of the usual and or dinary shape, from c to c", to receive the periphery of the man-head, and this groove and thelooation of the shoulders c a are shown in plan view in Fig. 6.

I claim as my invention The cask-head having that portion of its periphery which is on the sides of the man-hole of substantially the thickness of the main part of the head, combined with a cask-body interiorly grooved to correspond to such shape of the cask -head and to form shoulders 6'', against stant-iall y as described.

JOSEPH STRUBEL. lVitnesses:

Srnewnnr Srrnn, BERNARD J. SHAL'LEY.

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